The School Bus Chronicles: "I GOTTA PEE!!!"

This is the real Miss Frizzle!

I'm so not Miss Frizzle!

I have to admit it. I'm a school bus driver. That's right. I'm the one behind the wheel of the 40 foot rig you put your beloved children aboard.

I watch you parents of these kids sniff and wipe your eyes as they board the first day of school. These precious little bundles of hope and delight! These little ones that hold our future in the palms of their chubby little hands. I know. I was a sniffer, too. Not anymore I'm not! No sirree!

ejones and MKW! You are both amazing and I'm thrilled to have your support! I keep thinking and writing in my head.. time to get it all down! Thank you both.. and MKW - I think they'd relate to finding it in a Happy Meal box better, eh?

My Kat Walkin' 6 years ago

Come on Girl, you can do it. You just have to call and I'll come get you. Come on everyone, "More Stories, more stories, more stories! Like...You missed my stop! or the good old stand by of "Where did you get your driver's license? Blow them away and say "in a cracker jack's box!" Do kids even know that come back?

ejones 6 years ago

This was a great bus adventure too candi such funny stories I can't wait to read more.

mukherjeeapu! Welcome! I'm so happy you liked it and laughing you could relate! I think it's a kid's job to do this - and there are kids that don't 'hold it'!! Glad Joe did! Thanks for the visit and the great comment!

mukherjeeapu 6 years ago

Awesome, Candie!

Just loved it, and I can relate to it big time coz each time I hopped into a bus as a kid, I would either feel peeish or crappy! And my poor parents would have a tough time. I dunno what I would have done with a kid like myself!

Hey Twilight you made it here! Thank you! A keen eye and ear and at least one hand on the wheel (while biting the nails off the other hand!) Having them for 75 minutes is so diff from a full day with the darlings.. my hat's off to you! It is fun - most of the time! Hahaha! Thank you again for the visit and comment!

Twilight Lawns 6 years agofrom Norbury-sur-Mer, Surrey, England. U.K.

Candie, I've taught Primary Children (8 to 11 year olds) and on occasion, had to fill in with much younger children Horrors! Your observations take me back. Looking forward to more of this kind of stuff. You have a keen eye and ear. Thanks.

Earn! Thrilled to see you over in my neck '0 the woods! Hope traffic on the information highway wasn't too congested! Ha!

I'd be glad to let you ride my bus (but I'm thinking the beard might give you away as being older than 6) Ah well.. tis a pity you can't just hitch a ride for the day! We do have a fair bit 'o fun, and yes, they are more entertaining!! (makes for great writing if I can remember it all!) Thank you!

earnestshub 6 years agofrom Melbourne Australia

Your job is fun Candie, I wish I was on your bus too.

Kids are funnier and more entertaining than adults, that's just how it is.

I do have fun GMa! Hahaha! You make me laugh! Don't tell all my secrets! Hahaha! Hugs your way as well!

Merle Ann Johnson 6 years agofrom NW in the land of the Free

you have more fun then anyone knows...and drive'n a great bus now..there is no place I have laughed so much as when you were jealous of another bus drivers rig..."what I wouldn't give to drive one of these" says Candie...who woulda known a school bus in demand...:O) Hugs G-Ma

I'll gladly keep doing this if you keep doing what you do! If you've read any of my hubs on my failed nursing career, you'll understand! Thank you RNMSN for reading and leaving me a great comment! Oh.. and there's approx 15 on every run.. Not bad if you think of the total as about 50-60 K-5! Hahaha!

Barbara Bethard 6 years agofrom Tucson, Az

great story Candie!! you have all my admiration/I couldn't do it/who knows how many unleashed and unmuzzled six year olds on a bus? please!!!! lol

Patience? Ha! No.. really, most days, most of the kids do great.. it's usually a small few that make it challenging. No.. no speeding tickets! Most of the time I'm way under the limit! Clogging traffic don't ya know! Thanks WW!

Terry Chestnutt 6 years agofrom Cleveland, Ohio

Cute story. Sounds true. Where do you get the patience? Did you get a speeding ticket? lol

Flash! My goodness! I have missed you terribly! I remember life with a 6 year old and I gotta say you're a good mom and you'll get thru it will flying colors.. and find your mind again (I promise) Tho when they start driving your car.. you may loose it again.. So keep a spare handy! Love ya lots, too! thank you!

Flash 6 years ago

Hola amiga! Love the hub! I lose my mind with one almost six year old some days, I can only imagine what it would be like with several LOL I just stopped by to say hello-hope life's going great for you :) Love ya! ~J

Hi RedElf! Great to see you! I, too, was a tormentor-clobbering-with a lunch box - only mine was red/green/yellow/blue plaid! My new glasses were inside and snapped them in half.. oooooh did I get it!! Glad to hear I'm not that 'unique'! I could do a hub on our memories of our bus memories! Great idea! Thank you! xx

RedElf 6 years agofrom Canada

What a fun hub, Candie! Like so many others, I do hope you have more bus driving exploits to share with us! I, of course, was a well-behaved little angel :D Well, except for the time a clobbered a tormentor with my new yellow lunch pail...but I was provoked, honest :D:D:D

Just back to push a few more buttons and am really looking forward to reading your next school bus story. You must be getting tired of having your arm twisted! Just don't add skunk to the mixture! Ewwwwww!!!

Ewwwww! That's terrible! My grandmother did the same.. extremely rural route and kept the bus at their farm. We spent hours playing on the thing! Thank you for sharing Fiddleman! Still trying to figure out who you are!

Robert Elias Ballard 6 years agofrom Zirconia, North Carolina

Great hub. My father in law drove a county school bus almost 40 years and he had lots of stories too. In those days drivers could take their bus home if it was near the beginning of the daily route. They lived in a rural area of the county and one day after sweeping is bus, he forgot to close the door. During the night a skunk came aboard and it took several days with windows open to rid the bus of the odor the skunk had deposited.

Maggs you do make me laugh! It's a 3-ring circus to be sure! Thank you - you made my buttons very happy!

maggs224 6 years agofrom Sunny Spain

I loved this Hub and I do hope we are going to hear lots more of your adventures on the bus. Way back when (which is a long time ago) I looked after about thirty odd under fives at Play School (Kindergarten).

I had my hands and eyes free and it still it took a lot of doing. I cannot begin to think how difficult it must be to drive a bus and keep the children in order. I would find it difficult handling a bus with my full attention even with someone's help; you have my deepest admiration Candie. I am going to rate you up and push your buttons.

Hi Christopher! Ah yes... the things we do...!! Good man! So you know all about it! If I told you what I found today.. a very.. um.. graphic drawing of a male body part. Monday I get to find out who the artiste is! It's always something!

Christopher Price 7 years agofrom Vermont, USA

I know you have more bus driving stories at the ready.

This was a good one.

I drove a big yellow school bus right after college so I'd have enough time every day to tutor my girl friend through her last semester. The things you'll do for love!

Thank you OM! Yep.. the 'pee pee dance' is something little boys do too. But to do and spell is something you don't see everyday! Wish I had a recorder with me to put on here - you'd see some things that parents refuse to believe their children do!

Glad you're smiling! Thank you for stopping in!

oliversmum 7 years agofrom australia

Candie V. Hi. What a fabulous account on what little tykes can get up to on a School Bus.

What you see is what you get. Warts and all.

I guess little Boys have something to pinch, where as little Girls have to cross their legs and dance a little, but when you gotta go you really gotta go.

Having a sense of humor and patience would have to be a top priority in driving these beautiful Children to School I should imagine, and trying to be two jumps ahead of them most of the time.